News

Keep up with our firm’s latest news and our lawyer's appearances on several medias or talks.

Melissa Hellings 4/28/23 Melissa Hellings 4/28/23

Mireille Buydens at the international IP Conference in Guangdong (China)

Mireille Buydens at the international IP conference in China

Mireille Buydens has been invited to speak at the international IP conference organized by the Jinan University in Guangdong (China) this 26 April. The conference was chaired a.o. by Lawrence Lessing, Professor at Harvard Law School and Honorary Dean of the Intellectual Property Institute at Jinan University, Xu Xua, Dean of Intellectual Property Research Institute of Jinan University, and Sun Yuanzha, Executive Director of the Asia Pacific Law Institute in the United States The conference was devoted to Frontier Issues about New Balance in Intellectual Property. on Frontier Issues about New Balance in Intellectual Property .

Melissa Hellings 4/9/23 Melissa Hellings 4/9/23

Janson helped the bakery chain "Le pain Quotiden" in the market launch of their brand new product: “The cannabis bread”.

Janson for “Le pain Quotidien”

Melissa Hellings 4/4/23 Melissa Hellings 4/4/23

Judge forbids City of Ghent to introduce circulation plan around busy bridge

Judge forbids City of Ghent to introduce circulation plan around busy bridge — Janson

Judge forbids City of Ghent to implement circulation plan around busy bridge: the deliberation was not conducted legally.

Melissa Hellings 3/10/23 Melissa Hellings 3/10/23

Guy Block took part at the event "The CHINALUX Future of Energy" at Bilia-Emond Luxembourg

This CHINALUX “Future of Energy” event took place at Bilia-Emond Luxembourg on 8 March 2023. The event presented an excellent opportunity for the CHINALUX members and friends to learn more about Electric Vehicles and the future of energy. The event was sponsored by CHINALUX corporate members: Bilia-Emond Luxembourg & China Southern Power Grid.

The panel discussion was moderated by Guy Block, Partner and Head of Energy, Climate Change and Mobility. The energy crisis, the financing of the renewable energy sector, the charging stations and the road infrastructures were some of the topics discussed and debated during the panel discussion.

Julie Lebrun 12/6/22 Julie Lebrun 12/6/22

the 15th edition of the National Tender Day

The 15th edition of the National Tender Day

On 27 October 2022, Jorien Van Belle and Michiel Van Lerbeirghe gave a lecture on how the GDPR leaves its mark on public procurement, during the 15th edition of the National Tender Day at the Sheraton hotel in Brussels. They discussed the most recent case-law of the Council of State, from which they drew the lessons that tenderers and contracting authorities should keep in mind when faced with a public contract involving the processing of personal data.

A contribution by Jorien and Michiel on this topic will also be published in the Public Procurement Yearbook (ed. 2022-23).

Julie Lebrun 11/28/22 Julie Lebrun 11/28/22

Cédric Alter and Bruno Lebrun both represented Janson at IBA Miami 2022

Cédric Alter and Bruno Lebrun both represented Janson at IBA Miami 2022 and were thrilled to meet so many colleagues around the world. As an officer of the Insolvency Section, Cédric Alter chaired a panel on the implementation of the European restructuring directive, which was featured in the following article of Global Restructuring Review.

Julie Lebrun 10/14/22 Julie Lebrun 10/14/22

Hans Dhondt gave a lecture on recent IP case law of EU in Utrecht

On 30 September 2022 our partner Hans Dhondt (co-head of the IP department at Janson) gave a lecture on recent IP case law of the European Union at the impressive Railway museum (Spoorwegmuseum) in Utrecht during the Autumn meeting of the Benelux Association for Trademark- and Design law (Beneluxvereniging voor Merken- en Modellenrecht (BMM)).

Special attention was given to i) the CJEU’s decisions of 28 April 2022 NOVATEXT (C-531/20) and KOCH MEDIA (C-559/20) that create new opportunities to claim compensation for costs in IP litigation matters, and to ii) two recent decisions of the General Court on bad faith (NEHERA T-250/21 and LA IRLANDESA T-306/20).